He's socially engineering the FBI. He'll just waste the 10 attempts, and get the phone wiped. Debate over.

That's not to say it's appropriate in every case, but it's not as crazy as it sounds.

Timothy's getting delirious after not sleeping for a week.

With regards to the politicization of non-political posts, right in the mod guidelines, we get this gem: "Concentrate on promoting more than demoting." It seems like part of the culture to let offtopic comments slide. Combine that with the "no modding and commenting in the same post" rule, and people are more incentivized to continue the argument than to just downmod and participate in another part of the real post.
It makes sense to not be able to up/downvote and then reply to the same comment, but it sure would be nice sometimes to not have to choose between moderating and participating in the whole topic.

This estimate says you'd need 130 GPa to be in the right range. As of the writing, (three years ago), that was about as strong as nanotubes had been made, but only in incredibly small lengths. Scaling that up to 100,000 km is the hard part.

Except that there is no direct upgrade path from XP to 10, so the systems that MS is forcing upgrades on (7/8) ARE still receiving updates. XP has been EOL for almost two years now, and while there are undoubtedly some people that are just now getting around to upgrading/buying a new machine, most of the XP decline in real numbers has already happened. This market share news is almost certainly a function of WIn10 upgrades rather than XP reductions.
For people making the conscious choice to move to 10, there is no issue, but it's hard to determine how many "upgraders" really made that conscious choice due to Microsoft's spammy behavior.

Obligatory XKCD

Encryption is known to the State of California to cause cancer.

Nothing will ever change; the world is static; progress is over. So says the New York Times.

But he graciously exempted "media." I can't wait to see what his definition of that is.

Somebody has to cover the cost of fraud protection when it's the IRS doing the identity theft.

Not really baffling, this article is from Dec 11, according to the google.

Because folks might bother hacking crap like FitBits or baby monitors or drug pumps or Barbie dolls, or maybe even cars, but it's not like a refrigerator has ever been proven to be insecure.
Oops.

I count on my fingers, am I a computer?

"[G]etting a little dirty does the immune system some good. That thinking is known as the “hygiene hypothesis,” which speculates that the reason kids develop so many allergies today is because their environments are just too clean."